Oh, I'm sorry...
I must've been confused. See, I thought we were on a debate forum about politics. You know, one where someone makes a statement and other people respond to those statements. Sometimes, that response is critical of the other persons statement because they poster doesn't agree with it or because they feel the information is poorly proposed.
Silly me.
Well, I guess for you its a good thing this isn't a debate forum about politics. Or else I would point out how you didn't "Shine a light on the same type of guilt be association" at all. Because by showing two people, one of which convicted and one of which isn't, and trying to equate that to just one more arrest in a decades old lieneage of corrpution is not "the same type". That's kind of like pointing to someone that has cancer and also eats carrots and going "See, carrots cause cancer just like smoking does. Its the same type of thing!". I mean, if it was a debate forum I would point that out...though I guess if it was a debate site I wouldn't need to point that out because that's what my previous post kind of pointed out...but since its not I guess its not really needed right?
IF this was a debate site as well, I'd point out you're the silly poster here trying to score political points and make this a "left vs right" thing, as evident by your talk about "the other direction" in your post I guess I shouldn't respond to since we're not on a debate site. You see, I see the OP talking about corruption in Illinois politics, not illinois democrat politics. I see Ikari talking about corrupt Illinois and Chicago politicians, not corrupt Illinois and Chicago democrats. Rebelbuc doesn't even talk about the democrats Obama is around, but Chicago.
If you were interested in being anything other than a partisan hack here, and actually read the thread (wait, maybe this isn't a site for reading since apparently you also don't think its a site for debating), you'd see the discussion wasn't about "republican" or "Democrat" but "Illinois Politicians". Which, regardless of party, Obama is one and thus he's mentioned. Republicans are also part of the systemic corruption of Illinois politics for ages on end.
So you shed light on nothing. You made an asanine point because your Spidey like "partisan-sense" went off and you thought "OH OH OH OH OH I can insult Palin and stick it to those mean old republicans!" This is even evident in your next post wanting so badly to have it "cast in the other direction", when in reality no one was casting it in any direction save for towards Illinois. But god forbid your most wonderful and precious Obama be critizied even slightly...if that happens we must attack! We must make some comment, even if it is as close to hitting the actual point or topic of the thread as Virginia is to California.
I would say all that if this was a debate site, but apparently according to you its not. Apparently I'm not supposed to counter asanine, worthless points you make in a debate type style. I'm just supposed to not respond because apparently I was mistaken I was on a forum called "DEBATE Politics".
My apologize rsixing. Continue to enjoy "Soapbox Politics where no one may dare say I'm wrong".